kidcapricious’s most recent Quotables

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

I’ve always considered illustration and graphic design (along with photography, animation or any other creative discipline for that matter) as tools in a toolbox. The more tools you have, the more versatile you are and the more things you can build. Why bother trying to confine yourself to one specific tool? You’ll only hobble yourself with limitations.

Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they're just taking these images and living vicariously through other people's moments. It just kills me. Then you'll meet them and they're just the biggest turkey in the world. They don't actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It's scary man, simulation life that we're living. It scares me.

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer – that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.

When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. The reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they've thought more about their experiences than other people.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go.
Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people -- as remarkable as the telephone.

It might annoy purists, but Apple has demonstrated how ease of use trumps openness in the minds of the majority.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to please everyone.

... ad agencies crave well-crafted creative briefs. Show us the parameters, then give us freedom.